We met on December 2, 2019, at 7.30 in the meeting room at Sutton United’s football ground. 1 Present were Ben, Charles, Colin, Dominic, John K, John P, Marcus (in the Chair) and Shirley. Apologies were received from Neil and…
Yearly Archives: 2019
Party manifestos and cycling 2019
At the forthcoming General Election, to be held on 12 December 2019, candidates representing the Conservative Party, Green Party, Labour Party and Liberal Democrat Party are seeking election in the two parliamentary constituencies within the London Borough of Sutton –…
Sutton Cycle Forum September 2019
1: Overview The third Sutton Cycle Forum of 2019 (and the fifteenth since the borough’s Cycling Strategy was approved in November 2015, and subsequently published in February 2016) took place on 16 September 2019 at the offices of Sutton Council, Denmark…
Posted in Cycle Forum
Our response to the ‘Cycleway between Sutton High Street and Colliers Wood – proposals in the St Helier area’ informal consultation
Our response to the informal consultation ‘Cycleway between Sutton High Street and Colliers Wood – proposals in the St Helier area’, as submitted to Sutton Council on 3 November 2019, is detailed here. The response is also available as a…
Our response to the ‘Sutton Liveable Neighbourhoods funding bid’ consultation 2019
Our response to the ‘Sutton Liveable Neighbourhoods – funding bid’ consultation, as submitted to Sutton Council on 31 October 2019, is detailed here. The response is also available as a pdf document (600 kB): Sutton Liveable Neighbourhoods funding bid consultation…
Get Sutton Cycling AGM and Campaign Meeting, October 7, 2019
We met at The Racehorse, West Street, Carshalton. 1 Present: Dominic, John K, John P, Marcus (in the Chair) and Neil. Apologies were received from Ben, Charles, Colin, Gary, Shirley and Victoria. 2 AGM business The Treasurer’s Report was received…
‘Healthy Streets’ for Sutton year two (2020-2021)
Between June and September 2019 each of Sutton’s six local committees published a ‘Local Implementation Plan – Traffic Schemes 2020/21’ report outlining proposed schemes for inclusion in the 2020/21 bid to Transport for London (TfL) for their area. Taken collectively, the…
Posted in Advocacy
Anticipating Sutton’s first Liveable Neighbourhoods funding bid
Summary The London Borough of Sutton will be submitting a bid to Transport for London for funding through the Liveable Neighbourhoods programme [1] on, or before, 29 November 2019. To support the bidding process, Sutton Council has developed an online survey…
Posted in Advocacy, Consultation
London local authorities and the promotion of Car Free Day 2019
Here we present a round-up of Car Free Day (22 September 2019) promotional tweets from London local authorities, as posted chronologically between mid-morning on Wednesday 18 September and mid-day on Tuesday 24 September 2019. It may not be a definitive…
Posted in Advocacy
Will the new cycle crossing in Belmont encourage people to cycle?
1: Overview During July and August of 2019 three new crossings were constructed at the busy Brighton Road / Chiltern Road / Cotswold Road intersection in Belmont (1.5 km to the south of Sutton town centre). One of these crossings…
